Lemon-squeezer.



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(Application flied Oct. '7, 1899.)

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PATENT LEMON-SQUEEZER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 651,432, dated une 12, 1900.

Application filed October 7,1899.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT BAUMGARTEN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Lemon- Squeez'ers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to certain improvements in lemon-squeezers designed to produce a squeezer of the type in which one of two pressing members is advanced toward the other and at the same time giving a rotary motion about the line of its advancing movement to assist in the breaking up of the interior of the lemon and the extraction of the juice therefrom, the aim being to simplify and cheapen the working parts and at the same time give a more rapid, direct, and powerful movement with gradually-increasing force as the compression of the lemon advances. 4

The essential characteristics of the invention will appear from the specific description of the preferred form of the same in this specification and will be definitely pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of a complete squeezer with the pressing members separated to the greatest extent. Fig. 2 is a plan with the movable member advanced toward the stationary member. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the parts in the same position as shown in Fig. 1. Fig. l is an end view looking in the direction of the arrow 4 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5is a vertical longitudinal section in line 5 5 of Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a similar section in line 6 6 of Figs. 1 and 4. Fig. 7 is a horizontal sec-' tion in line 7 7 of Fig. 3 looking downward. Fig. 8 is a rear elevation of the cone-pressing member, and Fig. 9 is a side elevation of the same.

The frame is lettered A and has a back plate a, with a horizontal flange ct at the bottom intended to rest against the edge and lower corner of a counter or shelf to which the frame is to be attached by means of screws, for which holes a a are provided. From the back plate the frame extends forward in two horizontal brackets a a The bracket a has a horizontal longitudinal bore a to receive and guide a rod B, upon the head Serial No. 732,872. (No model.)

of which one of the pressing members is supported. The bracket also extends beyond said bore and is provided with a socket a, which embraces the ball-shaped end 0 of a universal pitman rod or strut C, which operates to advance and withdraw the movable member. The bracket a is provided with a rounded hooked end a horizontally notched or forked to receive a supporting-plate cl of a bowl-shaped pressing member D. Said plate is provided with a vertical pivot d, which rests and turns in the hook, the outside rounded ed go of which, being concentric with said pivot, works between the pivot and the 7 bowl to prevent the removal of the pivot from the hook while the bowl is in anyof its ordinary working positions. The bowl is pivoted to the frame to enable it to be swung into the position dotted in Fig. 1 to provide for the easyinsertion of the lemon. When it is desired to take the bowl entirely from the frame to clean it, it may be swung beyond the position indicated and withdrawn horizontally from its support.

Upon the inner end of the guide-rod B is a head I), provided with an operating-handle b and an eccentric socket W. The socket embraces one of the rounded ends 0' of the strut O, the other end of which is universally pivoted in the socket a of the frame, which is also eccentric to the guiderod B. The oscillation of the handle swings the head about the axis of the guide-rod and reciprocates said head toward and from the bowl as the strut Q swings in to or out of a position parallel with the guide-rod. The head is preferably circular in outline, except that it is notched in parallel lines at b b, the' notches terminating in shoulders 1) 12 The parallel edges are beveled and the cone-bearing pressing member E is provided upon its rear face with undercut lugs e e, fitted to these notches, s0

that said member slides upon the head and is held against withdrawal in the line of its reciprocating movement. Said member is provided with a cone 6 corresponding to the bowl D, and a surrounding flange 6 provided with a horizontally-projecting lip 6 The flange prevents the squirting outward of the juice, and the lip is arranged to lie beneath the cone when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 1, so as to drain any juice there may be upon the cone into a strainer F, provided with a perforation f, through which all but the seeds and pulp may freely'pass. This strainer is provided with a projecting supporting-socket f which slips over a horizontal lug g, extending from a'glass-holder G, as seen in Fig. 4. A vertical projection f engages a shoulder 9' upon the holder to prevent the withdrawal of the strainer except by lifting itslightly to enable the projection to pass the shoulder. The glass-holder is preferably secured to the frame by means of one of the supporting-screws F. (Seen in Fig. 5.)

Figs. 1, 3, 5, and 6 show the parts of the squeezer in their normal relative positions. The lemon is inserted by swinging the bowl forward, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1, and then returning it to the position shown in full lines. It is held in position in the bowl, while the handle is brought forward toward the operator and raised into the position shown in Fig. 2, where the strut will be seen to have swung toward a position parallel with the guide-rod B, forcing the cone member toward the bowl in its movement from the oblique posit-ion seen in Fig. 1. The nearer the strut is allowed to swing to a position parallel with the guide-rod the greater the power. The release of the handle permits it to drop, drawing back the cone and enabling the lemon to be removed by again swinging the bowl into the position shown in dotted lines. The lip projecting from the under side of the cone member when in the position seen in Fig. 1 carries the dripping juice which may adhere to said member over the strainer and into the glass arranged beneath the latter. The outline of said lip is preferably so shaped that the edge of the lip in all positions projects slightly over the strainer, making it impossible for any juice to drip down alongside of the glass.

The novel features contained in the con" struetion above described are to a certain extent independent of the exact form or arrangement of the same, and for that reason I do not limit myself to said form or arrangement, except where the same is material and necessary to the particular improvement in- Volved.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. The combination, in a lemon-squeezer, with a frame, of a relatively-stationary pressing member supported by said frame, a reciprocating member guided therein and capable of rotation about the axis of reciprocation and an oscillating strut universally pivoted at one end to the reciprocating member and at the other end to the frame, both of said pivotal points being eccentric to the axis of movement of the member; substantially as described.

2. In a lemon-squeezer, the combination with a reciprocating pressing member rotating about the axis of reciprocation, of a longitudinally-projecting lip upon the under side of said pressing member when the latter is withdrawn to its greatest extent; substau tially as described.

3. The combination, in alemonsqueezer, of the frame, A, provided with abracket, a having the rounded end, a", notched upon the side opposite the bowl when the latter is in operative position and the bowl, D, provided with the plate, (I, horizontally guided in said end and having the pivot, (1, supported in the notch whereby the bowl may be swung in a horizontal plane and held against movement radially to the pivot except when thrown beyond its ordinary working position; substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, at Freeport, in the county of Stephenson and State of Illinois, this 2d day of October, A. D. 1899.

ALBERT BAUMGAR'FEN.

Witnesses:

CHAS. O. SI-IERVEY, S. Buss. 

